List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for Kannada

Sahitya Akademi Translation Prizes are given each year to writers for their outstanding translations work in the 24 languages, since 1989.

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Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi translation prizes for their works written in Kannada. The award, as of 2019, consisted of 50,000.[1]

YearTranslatorTitle of the translationOriginal TitleOriginal LanguageGenreOriginal AuthorReferences
1990S.V. Parameshwara BhattaKannada Kalidasa MahasamputaCollection of Kalidasa's WorksSanskritPoetry & DramaKalidasa
1991H. S. VenkateshamurthyRithu VilasaRitusamharamSanskritPoetryKalidasa
1992Saraswati Gajanan RisbudValmiki Ramayana Sapa Mattu VaraValmiki Ramayana Sapa Ani VaraMarathiEpicShripad Raghunath Bhide
1993Kirtinath KurtakotiMarathi Samskriti: Kelavu SamasyegaluMarathti SanskritiMarathtiCriticismSham B. Joshi
1994Pradhan GurudattaJaya YaudheyaJaya YaudheyaHindiNovelRahul Sankrityayan
1995ThippeswamyNirmalaNirmalaHindiNovelPremchand
1996SeshanarayanaHadinentaneya AksharekhePadinettavadu AkshakkoduTamilNovelAshokamitran
1997Neerpaje Beema BhatKalhanana Rajatharangmi (Vol I & II)RajataranginiSanskritPoetryKalhana
1998C. RaghavanIndulekhaIndulekhaMalayalamNovelO. Chandu Menon
1999Vaman D. BendreKosalaKosalaMarathiNovelBhalchandra Nemade
2000L. BasavarajuBuddha ChariteBuddhacharitamSanskritEpicAswaghosh
2001Bannanje GovindacharyaAaveya Mannina Atada BandiMrcchakatikamSanskritPlayShudraka[2]
2002Veena ShanteswaraNadi DweepagaluNadi Ke DweepHindiNovelAgyeya
2003Snehalata RohidekarVichitra VarnaBichitra BarnaOdiaShort StoriesRabi Pattanayak
2004Chandrakant M. PokaleMahanayakMahanayakMarathiNovelVishwas Patil
2005Panchakshari HiremathHemantha Ruthuvina SwaragaluPatjhar Ki AwazUrduShort StoriesQurratulain Hyder
2006R.S. LokapurKannada JnaneshwariJnaneswariMarathiPoetryJnaneshwar
2007R. LakshminarayanaKannada VakroktiVakrokti JivitaSanskritPoeticsKuntaka Nemade
2008Hasan Nayeem SurakodaRaseedi TikeetuRaseedi TicketPunjabiAutobiographyAmrita Pritam
2009D.N. SrinathBheeshma Sahniyavara Prathinidhika KathegaluBhishma Sahni Ki KahaniyanHindiShort StoriesBhisham Sahni
2010A. JanakiGodanaGodanHindiNovelPremchand
2011Tamil SelviNaanu Avanalla... Avalu...!Naan Sharavanan lllai. VidyaTeluguAutobiographyLiving Smile Vidya
2012K.K.Nair & Ashok KumarHagga (Part 1,2,3)KayarMalayalamNovelThakazhi Sivasankara
2013J.P. DodamaniMahatma Jyotirao PhuleMahatma Jyotirao PhuleMarathiBiographyDhananjay Keer[3][4]
2014G.N. Ranganatha RaoMohan Das: Ondu Satya KatheMohan Das - A True Story of A Man, His People and an EmpireEnglishBiographyRajmohan Gandhi[5]
2015N. Damodara ShettyKocheretiKocheretiMalayalamNovelNarayan[6][7][8]
2016O.L. NagabhushanaswamyA.K. Ramanujan Aayda PrabandhagaluSelected Essays Of A.K. RamanujanEnglishEssaysA. K. Ramanujan
2017H.S. SreemathiMahashweta Devi Avara Katha Sahitya-1 & 2Selected Stories Of Mahashweta DeviBengaliShort StoriesMahasweta Devi
2018Giraddi GovindarajJaya : Mahabharatha Sachitra MarukathanJaya: Retelling of The MahabharataEnglishEpicDevdutt Pattanaik[9]
2019Dr. Vithalrao T. GaikwadDalita Saahityada Soundarya PrajneDalit Sahityache Soundarya ShastraMarathiLiterary CriticismSharankumar Limbale[10]
2020S. Nataraja BudaluSarahapadaCollections (Works. Philosophy & Dohas)ApabhraṃśaDohasSarahapada[11]
2021Guruling KapseOndu Putada KatheEka Panachi KahaniMarathiAutobiographyV. S. Khandekar[12]
2022Padmaraj DandavatiSita Ramayanada Sachitra Maru KathanaSita - An Illustrated Retelling of RamayanaEnglishFictionDevdutt Pattanaik[13]

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